A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. (Randall Jarrell)

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

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